Transcription: At first glance, it seems dangerous to settle Louisiana with foreigners. However, the unique position of the inhabitants of the Ohio Valley is such that we ought to consider them already inside the house, because it can be established, as the axiom goes, that the inhabitants we are discussing find themselves in a more or less easy position to invade Louisiana from those districts as if already established among us. They rebel, the difference being that in the first case they are glorious. But in embarking on flat boats on the Ohio, they will find themselves in Louisiana before they know what t ...
